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Paris Celestial
Shanghai Immortal (Related to this series)
- Author
- A Y Chao
- Narrator
- Mei Mei MacLeod
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 26 March 2026
- Run Time
- 11 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Accompanied by Tony and her friends Gigi and Ah Lang, Jing plans to turn the trip into an impromptu holiday. But Jing's trips seem to be cursed. Last time she left yin Shanghai, her hulijing grandmother abducted her. This time, vampires hijack her train because her other grandmother has designs on her friends.
And as Jing and her friends are drawn into the vampires' schemes, soon Jing is faced with an impossible choice: the family she was born to, or the family she has found along the way . . .
Critics Review
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PRAISE FOR A. Y. CHAO
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Shanghai Immortal is the must-read debut of 2023, both intensely fun and heart wrenching. A wild ride through a Shanghai you've never seen before
Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne
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A delightfully wild ride through a fantastical Shanghai filled with rich mythology, endearingly snarky characters, and laugh-aloud mischief. Entertaining from start to finish!
Chelsea Abdullah, author of The Stardust Thief
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Full of fury, passion, and beauty, this is a debut that will grip you in its fangs and make you bleed-all the while wanting more
Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife
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Chao has crafted something so utterly original and delightful I couldn't help but fall in love
T.L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead
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Charmingly irreverent and led by a protagonist bursting with personality
Xiran Jay Zhao, author of Iron Widow
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A brilliant, vibrant world with a joyous, irreverent and chaotic cast of characters. Absolutely rooting for Lady Jing forever
Hannah Kaner, Sunday Times bestselling author of Godkiller
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Details
- Author
- A Y Chao
- Narrator
- Mei Mei MacLeod
- Duration
- 11 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 March 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399717489
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Comic (humorous) fantasy, Fantasy, Dark fantasy, Adventure / action fiction
Synopsis
Now a Minister of Hell, Lady Jing is mind-numbingly bored. All she wants is to escape yin Shanghai and spend time with her mortal beau Tony Lee. So when a visiting Irish deity turns up boneless and drained of qi, Jing offers to deliver him to his pantheon's healer in Paris.Accompanied by Tony and her friends Gigi and Ah Lang, Jing plans to turn the trip into an impromptu holiday. But Jing's trips seem to be cursed. Last time she left yin Shanghai, her hulijing grandmother abducted her. This time, vampires hijack her train because her other grandmother has designs on her friends. And as Jing and her friends are drawn into the vampires' schemes, soon Jing is faced with an impossible choice: the family she was born to, or the family she has found along the way . . .
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